Sheet-metal satchel or bag handle



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B. W. CHAPMAN.

SHEET METAL SATGHEL 0E BAG HANDLE. No. 311,300. Patented May 5, 1885.

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OBERT w. CHAPMAN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SHEET METAL SATCHEL OR BAG HANDLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 317,300, dated May 5, 1885.

Application filed February 18, 1885.

To all whom it mg concern.-

Be it known that 1, ROBERT W. CHAPMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of Newark, Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Bag-Handles, fully described and represented'in the following specification, and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention consists in a sheet-metal bag-handle composed of upper and lower sec tions of form adapted to imitate the beadedleather bag-handles now in general use; and the same may be used in the form indicated in Figure 6, or covered with thin leather pasted thereto, as represented in Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 1 is a plan of the complete handle covered with leather. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 are, respectively, side views of the upper and lower sections shaped ready for uniting. Fig. 5 is an inside view of the bottom section, showing its tapering form at each end. Fig. 6 is a trans verse section at the middle of the same fitted together ready for uniting. Fig. 7 is a transverse section at the middle of the same with the edges of the upper section bent inward to clasp the lower section, thereby uniting the two parts together; and Fig. 8 is a transverse section near the end of the handle on line 00 a: in Fig. 2.

The top section is formed with a longitudinal bead, a, in the center, seats I) at the sides, and downwardlyprojecting flanges 0 at each edge. The bottom section is formed with central bead, d, and is provided with upwardly and outwardly projecting flanges e, which are proportioned to fit within the flanges, which project downward from the upper section, as is plainly shown in Fig. 6. V

The ends of each, section are preferably made narrower than the middle part, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, and when fitted together, as shown in Fig. 6, the two parts are strongly and permanently united by bending the flanges c inward over the flanges of the bottom section, as shown in Fig. 7. The upper section is shown formed at one end in Fig. 3 with tongues f, which are afterward bent into loops f, and their ends riveted to the (No model.)

I body of the handle, as shown at g, in Fig. 3. Such tongues may also be formed upon the bottom section, if desired, and bent to form loops simultaneously with the tongues f but by the construction shown in Fig. 2 the end of the tongue f is bent and riveted to the upper section before the lower section is applied, and the ends of the latter therefore serve to conceal the rivet and joint of the tongue.

The flanges a may be made wider at the ends than at the middle of the upper section, as shown in Fig. 3, and would then serve to almost entirely embrace the ends of the lower section, as shown in Fig. 8, and thus unite the two parts of the handle most strongly together at the loops f, where the principal strain is applied to the handle. If covered by leather, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the latter is preferably pasted to the upper and lower sections before they are placed together, with the edges of the leather made wide enough to fold over the edges of the sheet-metal sections, as shown in Fig. 8, and the leather is thus firmly clamped, when the sections are united and its edges thoroughly secured and protected from abrasion without any stitching. When such leather-covered handle is finished, a tool may be applied to the creases 0/, (shown in Figs. 1 and 6, between the bead a and seats 6, to produce imitation of stitching, as shown at a in Fig. 1, thus completing the resemblance of the handle to those heretofore made of leather by other means. The lower section is shown with seats (1, similar to the seats I); but these are not at all essential upon the lower section, provided the flaring flanges e are used, over which the upper section can be locked by bending the flanges c, as shown in Fig. 7. The central bead and side seats upon the upper section are, however, required to imitate the leather handles, in which such form is produced by the lines of stitching applied near the opposite edges.

handle by turning the edges of the leather over the edges of the separate sections before they are united together is applicable to handles of other forms, and is therefore separately claimed herein.

The method of securing the leather to the leather coverings fitted to the sections separately, and their free edges held in place by the overlapping sections, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT W. CHAPMAN.

Witnesses:

WM. A. J AOKSON, JOHN J. GANSZ. 

